SSPC High School Students' Mastery Level of the Basic Science Process Skills Basis for Curriculum Redirection
Keywords:
Basic Science Process Skills, Curriculum Redirection, High School Students' Mastery LevelAbstract
This study determined the SSPC high school students’ mastery level in the different basic science process skills. This study utilized a descriptive normative method of research aimed at determining the mastery level in science process skills of high school students of the Samar State Polytechnic College. The result of the Two-way ANNOVA revealed that “there is no significant effect of year level on the mastery level of the basic science process skills with respect to age and sex”. However, there is a significant effect of year level on the mastery level of the basic science process skills with respect to attitude towards science study habits, type of elementary school graduated from and location of elementary school graduated from. The science skills that are difficult in first year, second year, and third year are the following: interring, predicting, and experimenting. However, fourth year respondents do not find difficulties in any of the nine basic science process skills. SSPC high school students’ mastery level of the basic science process skills differ by year level as to type and location of elementary school they graduated from. The type and location of elementary school where the high school students graduated from do not affect the mastery level of the basic science process skills in all years level. Inferring, predicting and experimenting, are the basic science process skills that are difficult and need to be developed among the first year, second year, and third year high school students in SSPC, Catbalogan, Samar.
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